Pegasystems (PEGA +0.96%) stock got hit with a pullback this week following the company's latest quarterly report. The low-code software specialist's share price ended the week's trading down 14.4% despite the backdrop of a 0.5% gain for the S&P 500 and a 1.5% gain for the Nasdaq Composite.
Pegasystems published its first-quarter results after the market closed on April 21 and reported sales and earnings for the period that came in below Wall Street's expectations. With this week's sell-off, the stock is now down 37.5% in 2026.
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Pegasystems Q1 results were a dud
In the first quarter, Pegasystems recorded non-GAAP (adjusted) earnings per share of $0.46 on revenue of $429.97 million. Meanwhile, the average analyst estimate had called for the business to post an adjusted profit of $0.69 per share on sales of $467.16 million. Sales were down nearly 10% year over year, and adjusted net income per share came in 39% lower compared to the prior-year period.
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What's next for Pegasystems?
Pegasystems typically provides full-year guidance at the beginning of the year and opts not to provide detailed quarterly updates, but management did provide some color on the contract cadence for the rest of the year. The company said that its renewal portfolio is weighted toward the back half of the year. On the one hand, this could suggest that the company's weaker-than-expected Q1 performance was somewhat down to contract timing. On the other hand, the soft Q1 performance introduces uncertainty and creates a lot of pressure for improvement in this year's second half.
